The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-01-23
TRENTON NOTES.
What Is said About Men and Things Mt
MT the State Capitol.

IS anator Mcpherson Strengthened Kin
ney out.
Ely. of the Newark Evening News,
writes notably good Trenton letter.
Have you dared to go home since we
saw YOU last Wednesday, ''Speaker" Baird Z
Terry Mcdonald had 80 places to give
away. when he found himself Sergeant-at-
Arms.
-Ex-Assemblyman Woodruff. of Union
county, is dangerously i'll of complica-
ton of diseases.
Senator McBride is one of those who,
the Republicans say, will refuse to vote for
Cover or Albeit.
Several of the Republican Senator's are
dissatisfied with the refusal OF their broth
ers to organize.
--ExSecretary Henry d. Winton. has
been elected President of the New Jerse y
Editorial Association.
-sWill'' Chamberlai q Is one of the bright
est of the Trenton correspondents; and
Fitzgerald the busiest.
-Janitor Brown is some good this year.
The SUNDAY MORNING News has its desk in
the Assembly Chamber.
1t is understood that Senator Sowell
will not return to Washington till the Sen
atorial contest is decided.
e. j. Kern, who is to be Speaker
Bairds clerk, is country school teacher
at Washington, Warren county.
--Assemblyman Tumulty has the chair
in the Assembly that Major Peloubet set
afire with his eloquence last winter.
Armstrong does most of the talking on
the Republican side, but Assemblyman
Dickinson supplies him with brains.
-Wolverton says that he thought DR..
Baird an honest man till he announced the
appointment of his Election Committee.
sam" Hudson, of the Philadelphia
Record" turned up like bad penny at
the inauguration ceremonies last Tuesday.
When the occasion offers, Assemblyman
Lyon, of Morris county, will show himself
to be one of the best equipped legislator
in the House.
Did Armstrong make Tom Flynn Clerk
of the Engrossed Bills Committee in the
Assemblymen?
-Willever, one of the officers selected by
the back-room organic ation, has refused TO
accept an appointment at the hands of
such a combination.
The State Board of Agriculture will
meet next week. Thursday evening Frank
Hurd, the we'll known Ohio Free Trader
will make an address.
The organization fracas in the House was
pictured in Frank Leslie's Weekly" last
week; and the ssGraphic" sketched the To-
auguration Day scene.
The most prominent face in the audi
ence in the Opera House at the inaugural
ton, last Tuesday, was that of Clerk in
Chancery Allan i. McDermott.
The Republican schemefs in Trenton
themselves admit that last Wednesday S
session of the Assembly settled the Sena-
torial contest in favor of Governor Albeit.
Consul Richard Stockton, son of the
Attorney General, was married last Wednes-
day at st. Paul, Minnesota, to Miss Glenn
entine Finch, who is said to be an heiress.
-Assemblyman Mclaughlin has secured
places under Ferry Mcdonald fer "Benny''
Manning, ''Six" Whelan, and influenced
the appointment of Young Gaynor as a
page.
IF the Senate fails to organize, the
Court of Chancery will have to close up
for the Chancellor does not hold over, and
the Governor cannot appoint to fill va.
cancy.
There's a good Geal of talk about re-
moving the speaker" but we don't be.
lieve that the leaders will reopen the sores
it cost them so much labor to heal by at.
tempting it.
men is that they will vote for Potter fol
Senator, and when he is found to have nc
show, they will go over to the support o.
Governor Albeit.
-Robt. S. Green, Jr., is the most youth
full Governors Private Secretary New Jer-
sey has ever known. He is much tallel
than his dignifed father, and wears a grea
coat with cape.
If it were possible to buy the favor O.
the Labor Asssmblymen with Committee
appointments, Baird will not have the op.
portunity. The House took that out of his
hands last Wednesday
Ernest Chamberiin was busy trying
to post new clerk to the Speaker las
week. Chamberlain is to go to the Senate
to post Freddy Fish in the art of presiding
when Freddy gets there.
If Gen. Sewell passed the pickles II
Governor Albeit at the Inauguration din
ner in the Trenton House, Governor Alb
bett passed them back to Gen. Sewell Al
the State House the next day.
-'.Goyernor Albeit may be a bitter par
tisan and INSCRIPTIONS in his methods,
said well-known Republican the othe
day, shut as brainy man he stands heae
| and shoulders above all of them"
e. 0. Chamberlin says he is instruct
| ed by the New York ssSun" not to colo
his reports in favor of either party But E
o. manages to color them from the in
stincts of his black Republican natur
! every shot.
| Dennis Mullins, President of the stat
Federation of Trade and Labor Unions
says that the Federation will not assum
or undertake to Influence the vote of tn,
Labor Assemblymen on the Senatoria
| question.
Judge Mel ermott was the man who maj
shaded she Democratic forces at the grea
| flank movement on the Republicans las
Wednesday; and Assem- blymsn Noonal
proyeda safe and valuable leader on tn
House floor.
Fitzgerald must have devil Of a Tim
straddllng the political fence every night t
| supply thu Paterson sGuardian" with